Provincial ANCYL warns its ‘enemies’
PROVINCIAL ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leaders warned their “enemies” yesterday that their happiness at the expulsion of league president Julius Malema would be short-lived.
They were adamant Malema would remain their president until the ANCYL’S next national conference in 2014. “We are not afraid of you and we are going to defend the ANCYL’S autonomy to raise issues as a body of opinion within the ANC. As young people of the Western Cape we are not confused and stupid, and our course of struggle is that of the economic emancipation of our lifetime,” said provincial task team co-ordinator Senzeni Mphila.
They were “disturbed and dismayed” at the decision of the ANC’S national discipli- nary committee to expel Malema, said Mphila and other ANCYL leaders from across the province.
“The ANCYL in the Cape is still convinced that it elected a leadership that has courage to convince the structures in the ANC about the need of fundamental economic transformation, which is the crux of the matter. The ANCYL is being persecuted for speaking about an African Agenda, land expro- priation without compensation and nationalisation of mines,” Mphila said.
Anyone opposed to this view “is an enemy of the developmental agenda”. The league remained intent on eradicating the “evil triplet”: poverty, inequality and joblessness.
“We would like to reiterate… that we are ready to perpetually defend what we think is principled and correct.”